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Webster 1828 Edition
Listlessness
LIST'LESSNESS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
listlessness
listlessness
English
Noun
listlessness (countable and uncountable, plural listlessnesses)
- The state of being listless; apathetic indifference; lethargy.
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3
- But every thing must have an end. A motion made by this angelic youth, in the listlessness of going off sleep, replac'd his shirt and the bed-cloaths in a posture that shut up that treasure from longer view.
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3